ХVI International Conference«Black Sea Grain-2019»

"Black Sea Grain" Conference – is an international platform aimed at discussion of topical issues and prospects of the global and Black Sea agri commodity markets.

Since its establishment in 2004 "Black Sea Grain" became one of the major annual global grain forums.

“Black Sea Grain” Conference offers participants an excellent environment to find out the latest drivers of agricultural market, adjust business strategies in a rapidly changing world and get new valuable contacts with global operators of agri business.

Sergey Feofilov - Director General of UkrAgroConsult, Ph.D. in Economics.

Founder of UkrAgroConsult company - the first Ukrainian consulting agency specializing in agricultural sector of Ukraine and Black Sea region (since 1994).

Sergey Feofilov has more than 20 years of expertise in analysis of agricultural market of Ukraine and the Black Sea countries. He has broad national and international contacts in trading, banking and investment spheres, is a recognized speaker at the major international agri conferences. Sergey was trained under a number of national and international programs (1997 – UK, 2006 - USA).

G Chandrashekhar

G Chandrashekhar holds several public positions including Economic Advisor at IMC Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Member, SEBI Commodity Derivatives Advisory Committee; Consultant, UN International Trade Centre, Geneva. He is also a Columnist for agribusiness and commodities at The Hindu Business Line.

Erik Norland

Erik Norland is Executive Director and Senior Economist of CME Group. He is responsible for generating economic analysis on global financial markets by identifying emerging trends, evaluating economic factors and forecasting their impact on CME Group and the company’s business strategy, and upon those who trade in its various markets. He is also one of CME Group’s spokespeople on global economic, financial and geopolitical conditions.

Dan Basse

Economist Dan Basse has been in the commodity business since 1979, providing research and insight around the globe. His counsel is sought out in 81 nations — by farmers, elevators, soy and corn processors, wheat millers, food companies, trading companies, importers, exporters meat packers and more. Dan was raised on a dairy/grain farm in Waukesha, Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1979 and has worked with Professional Farmers of America, Brock Associates and the ag research division of GNP Commodities in Chicago. In 1987, Mr. Basse founded AgResource Company to serve the needs of the US and world agricultural community. Mr. Basse is a member of Farm Foundation and the Commodity Market Council.

Ivan Kasynyuk

Ivan Kasynyuk, is a partner at AVELLUM law firm and the Head of International Arbitration practice. Ivan advises clients in the area of international trade and represents their interests in international commercial arbitrations of GAFTA, FOSFA, and LMAA.

Ivan represents clients’ interests in the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the International Arbitration Court at the ICC, Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, and International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICAC). Ivan is a member of the working group on grain market development of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. He regularly works on the development of legislation and drafting laws in international arbitration, transfer pricing, VAT, and others.

Petar Dimitrov

Petar Dimitrov is Founder and Senior Broker of Agricore Ltd., the first independent commodity brokerage company in Bulgaria, GAFTA member and recognized worldwide as а first class counterparty.

Agricore makes brokerage of conventional and organic products within Europe. Broad international and local contacts with the traders, farmers, investors and banks. Agricore has developed the most successful online market information media for farmers and traders in Bulgaria – www.agroportal.bg.

Mr. Dimitrov has graduated from the University of Economics in Varna with excellence. Broad experience and knowledge of the Balkans and international grains and oilseeds markets that grants him. Invitations for frequent appearances at numerous conferences and events in Bulgaria and abroad.

1977-1999 – 22-year career with Continental Grain in international grain/oilseed market research.
M.B.A. in Finance from the City College of New York.

Elizaveta Malyshko

Elizaveta Malyshko – Grain Market Expert, Head of Research at UkrAgroConsult.

Being with the company since 1998, Liza is studying the main trends in the global grain market and specializing in forecasts for crops and trade, S&D; balance of Ukrainian grain, preparation of specialized market studies.

Liza holds numerous publications in Ukrainian and internatinal agricultural media, is a regular speaker at the top agricultural conferences.

Mr. Guo has more than 20 years experience of commodity trading in China market. He spent initial 13 years in multinational trading houses to sell agricultural commodities to China and remaining 10 years with local company. For his past 23 years, he was involved in import and export of agri-commodities to and from China, project development, distribution of feed raw materials in China and currently, he is responsible for business operation section of Dongling Grain.

Dongling Grain is a privately owned limited company in Guangdong province, South China and is being listed on the main board of Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Dongling Grain is in oilseed crushing, vegetable oil refinery palm fractionation business and feed raw materials trading.

Nikolay Gorbachev

Nikolay Gorbachev, President of Ukrainian Grain Association

from February 20, 2017 - President of the Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA);

from March 28, 2005 - Director of the New World Grain Ukraine (Soufflet Group);

Co-Chair of the Grain and Oilseeds Committee of the European Business Association (EBA);

UZA Vice-President;

since 1992 he has held senior positions in various companies, such as Tradigrain SA (commercial director) or Ukrinpex (director).

Evgeniy Radovenyuk

Evgeniy Radovenyuk - CEO, Grain Alliance

Grain Alliance is a progressive farm operator in Ukraine. Grain Alliance has experience from nearly 20 years of successful farming, achieving yields well above the average. Company controls around 53 000 hectares of which 51,000 hectares are cultivated.

In order to maintain long term profitability Grain Alliance has an emphasis on sustainable agriculture. Production is oriented towards a long term perspective. A balanced mix of crops is grown, with an emphasis on crop alteration and soil recovery, thus promoting environmental sustainability. A core component in our approach is IT. The in-house developed ERP system makes it possible to plan and control all parts of our operations in one integrated system. Our approach has proven itself to be highly efficient by generating returns above 30% per annum.

The head quarter is situated in Stockholm, but all operational activity is located to Ukraine.

Faik Genç

Faik Genç has been in the commodities business for 32 years. He began his career at Sabancı Group’s London based trading company in 1985, with a B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Middle East Technical University. He left the company as Commercial Director in 1996, moving to Turkey and joined crusher/refiner Doysan A.Ş. as Commercial Director. He was appointed General Manager in 1999. He took an active role in establishment of joint-venture with ADM in 2000 and he was appointed Chief Operating Officer of ADM/Turkey following ADM’s total acquisition of the company. In 2003, he left ADM and the vegoils industry. He returned to agri commodities business by setting up AgriPro, in 2008.

AgriPro Limited provides transparent brokerage and consultancy to the fats & oils industry, publishing regular reports which are sold to over 70 companies. AgriPro also published the first ever detailed “Turkish Fats & Oils Industry Report" in January 2012 and released updates in 2014 and 2017. Taking up events organisation in 2009, “Fats & Oils Istanbul / Feeds & Grains Istanbul” was the 9th international event which AgriPro has now organised. Faik Genç is a former Board Member and Vice Chairman of BYSD (Turkish Vegetable Oils Industrialists’ Association). He is a sought after speaker on sunflower complex and Turkish fats & oils industry and frequently appears as a speaker at international events in Malaysia, Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria and Turkey.

Being with the company since 2008, Yulia is specializing in oilseed and vegoil market of Ukraine and Black Sea countries. Yulia’s primary focus is crop forecasts, S&D; balances and market studies.

Yulia is an author and chief editor of UkrAgroConsult’s specialized weekly Newsletter "Black Sea Vegoils", holds numerous publications in Ukrainian and internatinal agricultural media, is a regular speaker at the top agricultural conferences.

Dmitry Rylko

General Director of The Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR), Ph.D., Dmitry Rylko was born in 1957 in Bryansk. Graduated with distinction from the Economics Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Since 1983 Dmitry worked at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in in a variety of positions.

From 1996 - Head of the Center for Agribusiness IMEMO.

Among the main tasks of the Centre is a study of problems and development trends of Russian and foreign agribusiness, the main directions of scientific and technical progress in agribusiness (biotechnology), land issues in various countries around the world, marketing and pricing issues in agribusiness in Russia; issues related to the functioning of the Russian food market.

Since October 2001, Dmitry Rylko is a CEO of the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR), an information-analytical agency, carrying out a wide range of applied and theoretical research in the field of global and domestic agro-food system. In the center of the Institute’s research is analysis of current condition and forecast of domestic ag food markets.

Maksym Maksymenko

Maksym Maksymenko, a counsel at AVELLUM, is an expert in the field of land and agricultural law, real estate and construction..

Maksym has over 10 years experience in advising international, as well as Ukrainian clients with primary focus on agricultural business, construction and related financing, real estate development, and real estate investment. Maksym also regularly advises clients on renewable energy projects. Maksym has deep legal expertise in the area of land relations. Furthermore, he was a member of various working groups of the central bodies of executive power, was involved in developing and approving draft legislation in the Ukrainian Parliament, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine, Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food Ukraine and the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre.

Pedro is a Partner and Co-Founder of MD Commodities – a global macroeconomic and agricultural commodity consulting firm, with offices in Brazil and in the United States. Company provides private consulting to some of the largest producers, private corporations and public agencies in Brazil, covering nearly 10 million acres of production in that country alone. U.S., Asian and European clients also trust the expertise Pedro and his team bring to the table, all focusing on agricultural commodity and macroeconomic trend forecasting and analysis.

Pedro is well-known in the Brazilian and international media outlets when the subject is agricultural commodities/macroeconomy.

Fatih Aksayli is a business executive and entrepreneur with 25 years of professional experience.

He has been in the logistics industry for more than 15 years operating and managing at different levels. He is considered to be one of the most accomplished logistical experts of bulk transportation in Turkey, with a specially on grains and pulses.

He has established ANDE Logistics in 2011 and brought the venture to a success where more than 90% of the transit trade of grains and pulses through Turkey.

Suncica Savovic

Ms Suncica Savovic is Secretary General at „Zita Srbije - Serbia Grains“ Association since 2009. Ms Savovic has 11 years of experience in world grain markets as a research analyst responsible for International markets section in Associations publication Report from the domestic and international markets of grain, animal feed, oil seeds and oils.

Ms Savovic is monitoring price movements in both domestic and world grain and oil seeds markets, as well as estimates and forecasts in reference to production, sown areas, inventories, exports, consumption in the domestic market, nearby markets in the region and relevant international markets. Her main focus is on data management and development of accurate statistical analysis which are important to succesfull production and trading operations.

Igor Kobelya – Co-founder and Director of the UKRAINIAN FLOOR MILLING COMPANY

Dmytro Lyvch

Dmytro Lyvch is an economist with 5+ years of professional experience in public policy and market research. He is now a Project Manager at Civitta Ukraine and Head of Analytics at EasyBusiness, where he oversees policy and market research in the fields of agriculture, energy and IT. Also, Dmytro is a Manager of Economic Development Group at Reanimation Package of Reforms, a biggest coalition of civil society organizations in Ukraine. Dmytro is a well-known public policy expert with 10+ co-authored policy papers and analytical reports, 30+ published articles and 20+ national TV and radio appearances, focused on business climate and investment attractiveness improvement, deregulation and farmland market reform. Dmytro Lyvch holds Bachelor's Degree in International Economics and Marketing and Master's Degree in Business Administration, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Kyle Tapley

Kyle Tapley is a Senior Agricultural Meteorologist at Radiant Solutions in Gaithersburg, Maryland. He joined the Radiant team following his graduation from Penn State University in 2008 with a degree in Meteorology.

Mr. Tapley is responsible for generating daily weather forecasts for major crop areas around the globe with an emphasis on how weather conditions affect production of agricultural commodities. He contributes to Radiant’s full suite of agricultural weather products and aids in generating production estimates for major agricultural commodities. Mr. Tapley also consults daily with industry traders and analysts, contributes to seasonal forecasts, and is a frequent speaker at agricultural conferences around the world.

Swithun Still

Swithun Still – Director of SOLARIS COMMODITIES, Switzerland.
SOLARIS COMMODITIES S.A. was set up in December 2011 and is specialized in the trade of agricultural commodities from Russia, mostly milling wheat and feed corn.

Before setting up SOLARIS, Swithun was the Commercial Director of Alegrow S.A. from 2009-2011 and previously worked for Agrico Trade & Finance S.A. in London and Paris, before moving to Switzerland in 2003.

Swithun is a fluent Russian and French speaker, having studied languages at Durham University.

He has been involved in the grain trade, predominantly from Russia and Ukraine since 1999.

Swithun was elected as President of GAFTA in January 2019 and is also a GAFTA qualified arbitrator.

He is on Twitter under the handle @RussianGrainTra

Farhan Adam

Farhan Adam is the Chief Executive Officer of Marina Commodities Inc, part of the Marina Group based in Toronto, Canada. The company was established in 2002 and is engaged in trading and exporting pulses from all over the World including oilseeds, sugar and various other commodities.
As the CEO, Farhan oversees the commercial and administrative activities of Marina Commodities including research and development of new markets and products - both for origination and sales. Having a Global presence, it gives a unique advantage as a one stop shop for all customer’s needs providing them with different origins and products at the same time. Prior to joining the Agri-export business, he graduated from the University of Toronto with an honors specialist degree in finance and economics.

Andrei Ryazantsev

Andrei Ryazantsev - CFO "Ukrzaliznytsia"

Liliya Timakina

Liliya Timakina - Director for Legal Issues Astarta-Kyiv

Liliya Timakina joined Astarta-Kyiv in 2015, prior she worked as private lower and held positions in juridical departments in different international and state holding companies. In 1994 Liliya Timakina graduated from Kyiv State Shevchenko University and graduated from H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University In 2014 obtained a license to practice law.

Starting his career, spent 6 years in Odessa railway, reaching a position of a Head of Nikolaev-Gruzovoy station (one of the largest stations on Odessa railway).

Later, held a position of the Head of railway transportation department at TransLogistik (organization of international transportation of military and dual-use goods: foreign trade contracts Ukrspetsexport, Ukroboronservice).

Head of the Multimodal Transportation Department of Gradalogistik LLC (organization of container transportation, transportation of oversized cargo, transit transport, freight forwarding in the ports of Big Odessa)

Director of LLC GDV-AGRO (organization of a full range of services for the transportation of grain by rail).

Currently - Head of Logistics at RISOIL.

Mykola Miroshnychenko

Mykola Miroshnychenko - Director, Logistics, Kernel, Ukraine.

At Kernel since 2013.

Mykola Miroshnychenko is responsible for providing all stages of logistics of the goods along Kernel’s technological chain.

Thomas Deevy is a risk manager working for Cerealcom Dolj, one of Romania’s largest domestic agriculture producer/traders. Thomas works with both the Cerealcom team and their clients base to provide mutually beneficial margin management solutions and increasingly developing new sales. “In my view, the Black Sea continues to be one of the fastest growing agricultural markets in the world, Cerealcom has been at the forefront of Ag innovation in Romania and is therefore perfectly placed to supply quality commodities to both EU and MENA consumers.” Prior to relocating to Romania, Thomas was a commodity risk manager at INTL FCStone, working with a wide client base of Black Sea and European producers / consumers.

Philippe de Lapérouse

Mr. de Lapérouse, Managing Director of HighQuest Partners, leads the firm’s strategy advisory practice. He has more than 30 years of senior level experience working with leading global companies in the agro-industrial and value-added food chain as well as working as an investment banker at the beginning of his career. As Managing Director of HighQuest Partners, he has led over 70 engagements, advising investors globally across the food, biotech and bioenergy value chains on making informed decisions regarding resource allocation, new business opportunities and investment strategies to address food security challenges. Mr. de Lapérouse is the author of the report, Private Financial Sector Investment in Farmland and Agricultural Infrastructure (2010) which was commissioned by OECD to provide insights on this emerging asset class. Prior to joining HighQuest, Mr. de Lapérouse was Director of Business Development for Bunge North America, Inc., and held senior line management positions with Ralston Purina International.

Mr. de Lapérouse chairs the Global AgInvestingSM conference series, the world's leading resource for events, research, and insight into the global agricultural investment sector held annually in New York, Tokyo and London have attracted over 8,500 attendees and AgTech Nexus, focused on early-stage ventures in the ag sector, held annually in Boston and Dublin. He received his B.A. degree from Trinity College and an M.B.A. degree from The Darden School of Business at The University of Virginia. Mr. de Lapérouse is fluent in French, English, and Spanish.

«Hedging Strategies to Protect Price Risk»

Intermediate

Workshop participants will get a Diploma upon completion of the training.

Date: April 9, 2019

Place: InterContinental hotel

Why attend?

Commodity risk management is a topic well discussed in the Black Sea Region. Some companies are proactive with this, while others continue to learn the process. The purpose of this course is to dig deeper into the strategies commercial firms can use to protect their price risk as well as discuss the new CME Black Sea wheat and corn contracts that can be used to mange price risk.

This course is more for intermediate level understanding and will go into futures, options, and OTC strategies that can be utilized for Black Sea participants.

AGENDA:

9:00-9:30 Registration&Coffee; 9:30 Futures/Hedge Basics-Concepts10:15Black Sea wheat and corn (BWF, BCF) futures and options overview10:45 What is the purpose of margin requirements? What is a margin call? How to manage this? Why should I choose clearing vs bilateral trade?11:45 Options: Terminology and Concepts/ Pricing and Delta13:00-14:00 Lunch14-00 Over-the-counter (OTC derivative markets)- what is it? How can I use it? How it differs from ‘futures’ trading.14:45 Common option strategies used15:30 Coffee16:00How to access CME Group markets-16:30Introduction to AgroBrokBot- ABB systems and procedures17:00Market outlook, closing comments and Certificate presentationsCocktail

Organizer

Consulting agency UkrAgroConsult was founded in 1994 and has 20-year expertise in agricultural markets of Ukraine and the Black Sea region. UkrAgroConsult provides a range of high quality services, including investment consulting, in-depth market research, commodity markets analysis, forecasting and other services. UkrAgroConsult’s clients are represented by investors, banks, agriholdings, farms, leading international and Ukrainian trading companies.

General Sponsor

Actava Trading is operating as a privately-owned, full service commodity brokerage house since 2008, covering the whole spectrum of agricommodities for physical delivery.
Geographical location in Dubai allows company’s brokers to operate with all the major producing regions of the Globe, with main know-how being the Black Sea grains, oilseeds, and oils markets.
Actava Trading serves both buyers and sellers to achieve the optimal efficiency in their day-to-day trading and procurement activities. Actava Trading is a Category B member of the GAFTA since 2009.Actava Trading is a member of FOSFA.

Exclusive Exchange Sponsor

As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group also offers optimization and reconciliation services through TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana

Exclusive Financial Sponsor

Credit Agricole Bank is a modern universal bank and the oldest established foreign bank in Ukraine. It has been operating here since 1993. The bank is owned by the leading financial group in Europe – Credit Agricole Group (France).
The bank belongs to the most reliable and stable banks of Ukraine, which is confirmed by the highest possible national long-term FITCH rating – AAA, leading positions in bank sustainability, bank deposit reliability rankings as well as by the rewards of leading Ukrainian periodicals.
The bank renders the full range of services to business, paying special attention to cooperation with agricultural companies. Being a strategic partner to agri-agro segment, Credit Agricole Bank provides a combination of strong financial and agri-agro expertise as well as innovative solutions for the Ukrainian market.

Official sponsors

Cerealcom’s rise from post communism truly is one of Romania’s inspiring success stories. A relatively young company, the group combines cultivation, origination and commercialization of grains and oilseed on the international market and has resulted in Cerealcom becoming one of largest domestic agribusinesses. With an annual export program exceeding 1MMT destinations remain varied and include Turkey, Egypt and Jordan, to name a few, as well as many EU countries. Cerealcom continues to lead the way for domestic agribusiness by opening new markets to Romanian quality commodities.

ANDE Logistics Services - is a logistics service organization specialized on long and short term project based operations, bulk cargo and container transportation services.
Established in 2011, ANDE serves its customers with outmost care, providing fast, accurate, quality service. The process management methodologies with zero mistake tolerance brought ANDE a well deserved name as a trusted business partner at port operations, handling 90% of transit grains and pulses traffic through Turkey. Identifying the unique needs of each operation and utilizing our wide spread suppliers and agents network, ANDE tailor-makes specific transportation solutions with optimal costs to provide door-to-door solutions.
ANDE operates at every critical sea port in Turkey, which are the key logistical bases for Russia and Ukraine originated grain and pulses traffic.
It also provides methyl bromide fumigation on handysize and panamax vessels as turn-key projects; coordinating all the permissions with the port authorities, obtain the phyto, COO & fumigation reports, and hand-over the complete documentation.

Sierentz Global Merchants was founded by Sierentz & Cie in 2017 as a global agricultural merchant focusing on the origination, handling and merchandising of grains and other agricultural products from Europe and the Black Sea region to a wide range of private and government customers in Africa, the Middle-East and Asia.

Legal Partner

AVELLUM is a leading Ukrainian full service law firm with a key focus on Finance, Corporate, Dispute Resolution, Tax, Real Estate, and Antitrust.
Our aim is to be the firm of choice for large businesses and financial institutions in respect of their most important and challenging transactions. We build lasting relationships with our clients and make them feel secure in new uncertain economic and legal realities.

Sponsors

INTL FCStone provides clients across the globe with a comprehensive range of customized financial services and tools to help them protect their margins and manage volatility. A pioneer in specialized financial services, INTL FCStone opens markets for underserved mid-market clients with insight, guidance and access.

Filhet Allard Maritime is marine insurance enterprise operating in the major global shipping and commodities markets for many decades. Company’s services include insurance of all aspects of the world’s transport risks: hull and machinery (merchant, fishing, sailing vessels), P&I;, shipbuilding and ship repair, losses of hire, cargoes in transit and storage, charterers’ and operators’ legal liability, political and war risks.

Eka is the global leader in providing digital commodity management solutions driven by Cloud, Blockchain, Machine Learning and Analytics. The company’s best-of-breed solutions serve the entire trading value chain across agriculture, energy, metals and mining and manufacturing markets. Eka is reimagining commodity management with a new age architecture that new age architecture that breaks monolithic TRM systems into bite sized chunks of powerful, enterprise grade apps, thereby enabling faster implementation, adoption and decision making. Eka’s mobile-first, enterprise apps are embedded with commodity specific algorithms that empower businesses to stay on top of volatile markets by letting them scale at will, go live faster, and achieve better value for their investments.
Eka has offices across the Americas, Asia, Australia, and EMEA, serving close to 100 global client base across multiple commodity segments. For more information, visit www.ekaplus.com.
To learn about how Eka can add value to your operations, email us at info@ekaplus.com

POSCO INTERNATIONAL is a global integrated corporation, moving beyond its existing trading business and creating new businesses for the future. Through over 87 of its global networks, POSCO INTERNATIONAL engages in the trading of a wide range of products from steel, automotive and components, machinery and industrial electronics to non-ferrous metal, grains, chemicals, commodities and textiles, with both local and international customers. POSCO INTERNATIONAL is the only Korean trading company that holds membership in GAFTA and FOSFA, which provides one of the largest trade flows of agricultural products in the entire Asian region.

OREXIM Group of Companies is a modern integrated company that has been successfully developing in both international and Ukrainian markets. The Group’s main activities: Management of port infrastructure objects; Accompanying services in ports (ships agency service, forwarding and chartering and other); Trading. The Company owns and manages port assets in Mykolaiv Sea port with turnover of more than 4m tones per year.

Supported by

Grain and Feed Trade Association (Gafta) is an international trade association with over 1500 members in 89 countries. 80% of the global trade in grains and feed is fulfilled with the GAFTA standard form contracts.

Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA) is all-Ukrainian public organization committed to protecting its members’ interests both on domestic and international levels and developing of the domestic grain market.

Among UGA members, there are more than 46 companies that operate on Ukraine’s markets of grain and agricultural products, including large Ukrainian trading companies, subsidiaries and representative offices of international trading houses, transporting and shipping agencies, and media companies.

World class quality and service in the heart of Kyiv. Situated in the very heart of ancient Kyiv next to three famous Ukrainian orthodox churches – St. Sophia, St. Michael and St. Andrew – the location of the InterContinental Kyiv is truly unique. Built to match its historical surroundings, the hotel's traditional style is grand and elegant. Business travellers will appreciate proximity to corporate entities, government agencies and embassies. When it's time for leisure, a wealth of shopping, historical and cultural sights are close by including the National Opera House and Khreschatyk (Kyiv's Main Street).